A tale as old as time: she needs a place to stay, he's a grump with a secret and an extra room...can love find a way?

Meet the Naughty Princess Club, a series from USA Today bestselling author Tara Sivec that brings readers to Fairytale Lane and the hilarity—and romance—that three women fall into once they decide to strut their stuff and bring on their own happily ever after.

Living in her overprotective dad’s basement, shy Belle lives her life through books. Being a part of the Naughty Princess Club is the first adventure she’s ever had, plus she desperately needs the money to save one of her favorite places - the local library.

But when her new friends and new business gets her kicked out of her dad’s house, Belle is rescued by the surly Vincent “Beast” Adams who invites her to be his house guest until she gets back on her feet. Despite his attitude problem and long list of rules, Belle finds herself warming to the muscled man with a penchant for growling and starts seeing a gentle side to him that wasn’t there before.

Yet there’s a room that Beast keeps locked and Belle keeps getting hints that Beast is hiding something…can a nerdy librarian tame the beast or will their romance be over before it has a chance to blossom?

Belle is a book nerd. She works in a library and that’s her dream job. She lives in her dad’s basement and though she’s an adult, he is extremely overprotective of her. When she met her two best friends, Cindy and Ariel, she never imagined she’d be starting a stripping business with them, but it happened. She’s a bit anxious to actually do that stripping but she’s working on her confidence. When she gets kicked out of her house by her dad she doesn’t want to bother her friends and ends up sleeping in the library. She’s saved from that by an unlikely source – a man named Beast who works at the local strip club as a bouncer.

Beast, whose real name is Vincent, is completely besotted with Belle. He takes her home and sets her up in his spare bedroom. Despite his form of communication aka grunting, Belle finds him charming. He shows her with deeds what a good guy he is. They manage to have some hot interactions but Belle’s not sure if he’s just trying to help her with her confidence or not. Belle is soon falling in love but when a secret that Beast is hiding comes out her belief in happily ever after is put to the test.

This was another great story in the Naughty Princess Club series. I really loved Belle and her awkwardness. She spouts statistics and little tidbits of knowledge when she gets nervous and I found it charming.

This book was in first person POV so of course we didn’t get any info from Beast, which was disappointing. Beast had a hidden past that comes out (a good one!) and I would have loved to have known his thoughts on a lot of things that happened in the book. Alas, it was not to be. Despite that I thought he was a great guy who had serious communication issues. He came through in the end, however so that was a plus.

This is definitely a romance between Beast and Belle, but it’s also sort of a coming-of-age story involving a 24-year-old. That seems a bit odd, I know, but Belle had never really come out of her shell. She’d been protected by her dad all her life and her friends were the ones she read about in books. She did go to college and get her master’s degree, but I got the impression that she lived at home that whole time. Meeting and befriending Cindy and Ariel were the first steps in getting her to be her own person. I loved reading about how she was taking things step by step to change her life and lead it the way she wanted to lead it and doing it in her own way.

Overall I really liked this story – just as much as I liked the first book in this series, At the Stroke of Midnight. If you’d like to read a couple of fun, contemporary romances then these are two I recommend picking up.

Once upon a time Cynthia was the perfect housewife. Between being the President of the PTA and keeping her home spotless without a hair (or her pearls) out of place, her life was a dream come true. Her husband was once her knight in shining armor, but now he’s run off with all their money…and the babysitter.

Dressed as a princess at the annual Halloween block party on Fairytale Lane, she meets two other “princesses” also facing money troubles: antique store owner Ariel and librarian Isabelle. When the women are invited to wear their costumes to a party where they’re mistaken for strippers, Cindy, Ariel, and Belle realize that a career change could be the best way to make their money problems go bippity-boppity-boo.

But can structured Cindy approach a stripper pole without sanitizing wipes? And could the blue-eyed anti-prince that has been crossing her path become Cindy’s happily ever after?

Cindy is barely hanging on. Her husband has cleaned out their bank accounts and run off with the barely legal babysitter, leaving Cindy and her teenage daughter high and dry. Cindy is the head of the PTA and a “proper” woman so she tries to hide her husband’s defection for as long as possible. When she becomes friends with the neighborhood pariah, Ariel, after a bit of a rough start, she realizes that she needs to make a future for herself and her daughter as, obviously, her husband isn’t coming back.

At a Halloween block party one of Cindy’s neighbors ask her, Ariel and their friend Belle to “perform” at a party. They think that being hired as princesses for a children’s party is an awesome idea but when they get there they figure out that it’s a bachelor party and they were hired to strip. They get out of that situation but the stripping idea sticks with them. They decide to start a stripping business of their own, but they need help. They head to a high-class strip joint to learn some moves from one of the girls, but the owner of the place, PJ Charming, has it out for Cindy. Or is it that he just wants her for himself?

This was an unexpectedly cute story. I obviously read the blurb before reading it but it was so much more than I expected.

Cindy was a real piece of work before her husband left, and even afterward. She had spent years trying to be the perfect wife but her life was…beige. Her clothes were beige, her shoes, home furnishings and life were all beige. Her husband leaving ends up being the best thing for her because she learned how to be herself and that wasn’t who she had been while married. Becoming friends with Ariel & Belle, and becoming an independent woman were all so good for her and I loved seeing her come into her own.

The relationship with PJ was hot and spicy and oh so good. It could also be very sweet and I loved that. PJ was a good guy who was really trying to protect Cindy (and keep her for himself). Yes, he acted like an ass a few times but I thought he more than made up for that.

Overall this was a good book and I definitely recommend it if you’re looking for a fun and humorous book to read. I’m looking forward to the next book in the series, that’s for sure.

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